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Thirty-Ninth National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies
Friday, 7 and Saturday, 8 April 2006
at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies,
School of Advanced Study, University of London
PROGRAMME
Friday, 7 April
Room ST 273, Stewart House
10.00 Coffee and Registration
10.30 Ben Schofield (Sheffield): 'Auch in meinem Gedanken ist eine FebruarRevoluzion eingetreten' [sic] - Heinrich Heine and the European Revolutions of 1848
11.15 Marc J. Schweissinger (Cardiff): Gerhart Hauptmann and his Historical Plays: Aesthetic Character Construction and its Relationship to History
12.00 Break
12.15 Christoph Esser (Oxford): Sascha Anderson. Ein Außenseiter unter Außsenseitern - von allen guten Geistern verlassen
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 Stephen Joy (Cambridge): Open Wide! The Motif of the Mouth in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and Der Tod in Venedig
14.45 Sarah Guest (Birmingham): The Aviatrix: Emancipated 'Neue Frau'? Women Pilots in Weimar Germany
15.30 Tea
15.45 Stefanie Weber (Limerick): Lustiges und Lust am Leben - Humor und Kinderliteratur
Saturday, 8 April
Room ST 273, Stewart House
10.45 Paola di Mauro (Vienna): Wiener Wahrnehmung der Wahnsinnigen
11.00 Chantelle Warner (California, Berkeley): The Politics of Haunted Voices: Bernward Vesper's Die Reise
11.45 Coffee
12.15 Joel Love (Birmingham): Utz Eckstein's Rychsztag. Der Edlen vnd Pauren (1526) as a Dialogue between Differing Visions of Reform
13.00 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.00 David Gallagher (Royal Holloway, London): The Transmission of Ovid's Arachne Myth to Jeremias Gotthelf's Die schwarze Spinne and its Global Reception in the Twenty-First Century
14.45 Frauke Matthes (Edinburgh): Travelling to Islam: Ilija Trojanow's Zu den heiligen Quellen des Islam
15.30 End of Colloquium
The registration fee of £15.00 covers tea and coffee as well as administrative costs only.
For further details and a registration form, contact Jane Lewin ([log in to unmask]).
Please note that registrations (incl. fees) must be received by Thursday, 30 March.
INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room ST282, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Telephone: +44 (0)20-7862 8966 Fax: +44 (0)20-7862 8970
E-mail: jane.lewin @sas.ac.uk
Website: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk